Ari Up – co-founder of the iconic British punk band the Slits – died October 20, according to the Sex Pistols’ John Lydon, who reported the news on his site. Up, who was born Arianna Forster, ...

Hard to believe, but there's never been a documentary film about the Slits, the radically unconventional, female-centric, first-wave British punk group... until now. Bellingham-based filmmaker William ...

On October 20, Ari Up, who co-founded the pioneering English all-girl punk band the Slits in 1976 when she was just 14, died from an undisclosed illness. She was 48. In honor of her musical legacy, we ...

Nearly three decades after its release, Cut, the 1979 record from pioneering female punk band the Slits, is finally available on CD in the States. The reissue just may usher in a revival, as new ...

There were female musicians and rock bands before The Slits, but the British punk four-piece (and later post-punk six-piece) was a force of one. Never before had female musicians upended expectations, ...

When director William Badgley’s friend Jennifer Shagawat (Shellshagg), who served as the tour manager for the Slits when the British punk band reformed in the late 2000s, asked him to create a ...

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The British Library is currently putting on an exhibition entitled Punk 1976-78, which looks at some of the first bands to emerge on the British punk scene. This sounds like a great idea, but it’s ...

Ari Up, leader of the pioneering post-punk band The Slits, would have turned 49 on Jan. 17. She died of cancer last October (read All Songs Considered contributor Carrie Brownstein's remembrance here) ...

Arianna Forster, better known to her fans as Ari Up of the influential punk band the Slits, died of an undisclosed illness Wednesday in Los Angeles, her stepfather, John Lydon — a.k.a. Johnny Rotten ...